In the world, the rise of most cities began with the settlement of ordinary people. Liangzhu is no exception.

In the ancient city, except for a few areas with special significance, they are basically the residences of ordinary people. They are spread on both sides of the river and live in the middle of the river.

They piled up high ground on the swamp and then formed a river on both sides, and the banks were piled up with stones, which were carefully woven into beautiful revetments with bamboo fences and bamboo weaving.

Water surrounds the city, and this mode of life can still be found in Shaoxing, Wuzhen, and Zhouzhuang.

It has to be said that this is a very convenient design for both the residents of the time and the archaeologists of today.

For the inhabitants, the proximity to the waterway not only facilitates transportation, but also facilitates the transportation of utensils and food.

It is also very convenient in life, whether it is to take water, or to discard leftover bones, fruit pits, etc., as long as you lift your hand, you can easily do it.

For archaeologists, the emergence of waterways and rivers is also a thing that makes archaeology easy and convenient.

Most of the waterways and rivers have been wiped out or diverted by the great flood 4,200 years ago.

As a result, the things that the residents of the ancient city of Liangzhu discarded in the river were deposited in the ground and became part of the cultural relics.

Archaeologists have found a lot of fruit seed remains from the river, including plum pits, water chestnuts, peach pits, melon seeds, wild grapes, wild kiwi and so on.

In addition, some traces of staple foods such as rice and barley were found.

It could be a playful child who threw his precious food into the river.

In addition, archaeologists have also found that there is a clear division of areas in the ancient city of Liangzhu.

For example, the platform in the center of the city, the Mojiaoshan Plateau, was the center of power at that time.

Most of the people who live between the banks of the river are the residences of handicraftsmen.

As for the remains of agriculture, which was the main mode of livelihood at that time, such as rice fields, there is basically no one found in the ancient city.

This does not mean that the way of life of the Liangzhu people has changed. Because, even if the remains of rice fields have not been found in the area of the ancient city of Liangzhu, a lot of carbonized rice can still be found in it.

The largest and most abundant place of carbonized rice is located in the south of the palace area of Mojiao Mountain, facing a place called "Chizhong Temple" in the southwest corner of the Great Mojiao Mountain. Its status can be almost equal to that of the "official warehouse" after it.

It should have been a granary specially built by the rulers of the ancient kingdom of Liangzhu at that time, which was used to store grain and use it for disaster relief when necessary.

But where the grain is found?

Where have the peasants gone?

Answer, in fact, it is in the suburbs of the ancient country of Liangzhu.

That is, the people of the outer city who were covered by the second, more peripheral outer wall.

More than 160 ruins have been found in an area of 15 square kilometers outside the city. These suburbs may have been the place where the peasants lived, diligently cultivating the land and supplying the cities with food.

Perhaps, as early as the Liangzhu era, the urban zoning was already very similar to today's cities. The peasants lived in the countryside, while the ancient city was inhabited by craftsmen of relatively high status.

The ancient city of Liangzhu, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers, has urban planning a bit like BJ City in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is divided into the imperial city, the inner city, and the outer Guo city.

The inner city covers an area of about three square kilometers and is the size of four Forbidden City.

The palace district in the center was where the nobles lived, and the periphery was inhabited by artisans.

The ancient city of Liangzhu has a well-developed water system, the common people live near the water, the riverbank made of wooden planks is exquisite and beautiful, and there are rows of houses and waterfront wharves on both sides of the riverbank.

Beyond Guocheng are golden rice fields, in which countless farmers work and harvest.

The Liangzhu people would dump garbage into the river, and a large number of daily necessities such as pottery and bone tools were found in the river, and the remaining jade materials were processed.

The Liangzhu civilization had a huge social mobilization capacity, and it only took a few years to build a huge flood control dam on the periphery of the ancient city!

Judging from the human bones excavated, Liangzhu and modern people looked the same as them at that time.

The common people generally wore linen clothes, and the nobles wore silk (found by technical means)!

There are many kinds of food eaten by Liangzhu people, in addition to rice, the discovery of plants includes water chestnut, barley, wild kiwifruit, wild grapes, melons, acorns, wild persimmons, lotus roots and lotus seeds. There are 30 or 40 kinds of meat, such as various fish (mainly black fish and crucian carp), turtles, pigs, and roe deer.

At that time, the Central Plains was still a backward region.

At that time, the only one who could take the shot was the ancient country of Liangzhu!

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After climbing high and looking into the distance, standing on the valley and overlooking the structure of the ancient city of Liangzhu, Kong Jianwen led Chen Han and others to finally come to the core area of the ancient city of Liangzhu.

Mojiao Mountain Plateau.

When people settle down, social classes emerge.

This is the inevitable law of the development of things.

And after the emergence of social classes, there will be rulers, that is, kings.

When the king appears, the people of Naliangzhu will begin to plan to build a palace for their king.

From the current point of view, the palace area of the ancient city of Liangzhu almost perfectly fits the imagination of people in the palace city after that.

This is also an important evidence that the ancient kingdom of Liangzhu is one of the origins of Chinese civilization!

The ancient city of Liangzhu has the earliest triple city pattern in China!

In the outermost part of the ancient city is the outer Guo with an area of about 8 million square meters, and the inner city is surrounded by the city wall, which is nearly 3 million square meters, and then in the middle is about 300,000 square meters of Mojiaoshan Palace District.

This layout has almost continued from the Liangzhu Ancient Kingdom era 5,000 years ago to the Qing Dynasty!

The triple urban pattern of the imperial city, the inner city, and the outer city is also the most solid urban planning structure of Chinese civilization!

This shows that the ruler is heavily guarded!

Of course, in addition to being heavily defended, the ruler is still high.

Just as the palace of the Han family should be located on the highest southwest corner of the entire Chang'an, this can show the status of the emperor.

Mojiao Mountain, where the palace area is located, is a highland built by artificiality.

On the endless Liangzhu Plain, this artificially piled high ground is already the highest ground except for the naturally formed peaks.

And on the top of Mojiao Mountain, three pedestals arranged in the shape of nearly "Pin" are piled up.

The east side is called "Big Mojiao Mountain", the north part of the west side is called "Little Mojiao Mountain", and the south part of the west side is called "Turtle Mountain".

The stacking height decreases from the inside to the outside, showing a clear grade difference.

On these three pedestals, there should be rows of houses, except for the surface of the Turtle Mountain pedestal due to serious damage in the later period and was not found, the house foundations on the large and small Mojiao Mountain are arranged in an orderly manner.

The largest palace is located on the Great Mojiao Mountain.

Between the three pedestals, there is a nearly curved ruler-shaped sand square for royal worship, covering an area of 70,000 square meters, and there are also orderly house foundations in the south and east of the square.

Perhaps, these three bases are the residence of the king, the residence of the lady of the king, and the residence of the crown prince!

It is the entire ancient country of Liangzhu, the center of power!